DataEngines and models

[Àlex Fiestas]

On Tuesday 24 December 2013 20:13:58 Marco Martin wrote:
> for many things yes, but they are not mutually exclusive.
> I see imports more as standalone, high quality,stable api public libraries,
> while dataengines more as q quick mean of data fetching.
Please, DataEngines have given us many issues in KDE4 because they were seen 
(I guess) as a quick hack thing, let's stop this.

DataEngines are public api as much as any import the moment you can use them 
from any plasmoid. And in contrast from a Model they usually have no 
documentation and they are hard to read since you don't have to define the 
Roles in the header.

So, if DataEngines are needed (I do not doubt that) let's continue having them 
but let's stop pretending they are not public API or that they are meant only 
for a quick hack. We don't want hacks do we? :p

Cheers.